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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Art (and Anarchy) of Shopdropping

Shopdropping is a fascinating phenomenon that's appeared in cities around the world. Also known as reverse shoplifting, it involves leaving objects in stores where they're bound to be discovered by other shoppers. Some shopdroppers replace the labels on tin cans with small works of art. (Shown above.) Other shopdroppers leave political messages, inspirational notes or their own CDs or pamphlets.

While I'm not too fond of having other people's politics forced on me, I love the idea of discovering art in random places. If I were to find a can with a beautiful work of art on it--or a secret message inside my egg carton--I think it would probably make my week.

Of course, the world's most famous "shopdropper" is the artist Banksy (whose works have received a great deal of attention on this blog). Some of his most famous stunts have involved hanging his own subversive artwork (above) in museums while the guards aren't watching.

Happy Earth Day everyone!You know, something that annoys me is when people call it "Green up Day". Well, not the fact that they call it that but what it makes people think. It makes everyone think to pick up trash and recycle. This is true,but I think Earth Day is also about helping other people. Humans are part of the earth too, right?~Spiffy

Oh, and I'll definitely be doing this "shop-dropping" soon. ^^ I'm going to try and set up something where the person who finds it leaves it for another person, or makes something similar for another person and shop-drops it too. Should be fun. If it works...

I do that at school-I put weird messages and stuff, but I don't do that anymore, I shop-drop sometimes, I put weird notes like 'if the moon is made of cheese, the sun is made of socks.' and add pictures with them.

Here's a link with a picture of a really cute lemur (hope it works): http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Managua/photo//080419/481/8d2f846f830540169bb16b0a44447915/#photoViewer=/080418/481/7a9800a3aa364bec8f395bdcb233b11b

I have a vocal techniques recital (singing, in front of people, ah!!!!) and I am singing Over The Rainbow (E b key). I like it because there are a bunch of high notes.

About Me

I'm the author of the Kiki Strike book series (plus a few other things) and co-author (with Jason Segel) of the Nightmares! book series.
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